For the record

• In our news story on SETI (20 July, p 22) we mentioned the Rio scale, which is designed to inform the public how likely it is that an unexplained radio signal is from an extraterrestrial civilisation. We incorrectly stated that the scale runs from 0 to 1. It actually runs from 0 to 10.

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